Legal Question in Traffic Law in Illinois

My wife was stoped by a small town police officer and my wife recieved a speeding ticket.

As soon as I saw the Police car I looked at the speed-domiter and it said that my wife was doing 25 miles an hour and he gave her a ticket for doing 42 in a 25.

As soon as he was finished writting the ticket we went straight to a different town had them to check our seed-domiter by us going by and them use their radar gun,

We went by them at 25 miles per hour (the same speed limit our speed-domiter said when she got ticketed) and when we went back to the Police station he said that he clocked us at 25 miles per hour.

My wife plead not guilty and has a Court date of January.06, 2010.

I told her to plead not guilty because she was not guilty.

I am a witness that she was not speeding and the police station in the next town said that our speed-domiter was working good.

Do you think we should get a statement from the othe police station regarding us having them to test our speed-domiter?

What do you think we should do?

Thank you for all your help.


Asked on 12/10/09, 7:51 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Sue Roberts-Kurpis, Esq. Law Office of Sue Roberts-Kurpis

I think you should pay the ticket and stop trying to be Perry Mason. Your statement says that "as soon as I say the police officer, I looked at her speedometer, etc." Only the PO knows when he first saw you or caught you on radar. It very possible that at that moment your wife was going 42 miles an hour. These cases are almost always losers.

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Answered on 12/15/09, 10:55 am


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